My son had a similar thing. He is going into 8th and because of his scores doesn't have to take the reading class. So that gives him three electives instead of two. Problem is he isn't into the arts (except loves working tech for his dad the drama teacher at the high school) and has taken all the tech classes offered. They were going to offer a mythology class elective but it got dropped at the last minute and might only be an after school club. So...he is ending up taking the reading class. He says he doesn't mind but I know he does. Hopefully it will be an honors reading class at least and not one full of remedial readers who don't like to read. A class of misbehaving kids drives him nuts. AND the teacher is a long term sub until the position gets filled. I don't have high hopes for that class.
At this point my kid would be better off if his three electives were at the end of the day and I picked him up to partial homeschool him and he got to do his homework and pursue his own learning interests during that time.
Could he not do an on-line or correspondence course? Here we have a national school of correspondence that parents can access - maybe you have a state version.
